Bøger af Clifford Whittingham Beers

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A Mind That Found Itself by Clifford Whittingham Beers, is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thing contributes so much to its value as its authenticity. It is an autobiography, and more: in part it is a biography; for, in telling the story of the authors life, which he must relate the history of another self-a self which was dominant from his twenty-fourth to twenty-sixth year. During that period, unlike he had ever been been, or what he has been since. The biographical part of his autobiography might be called the history of a mental civil war, which he fought single-handed on a battlefield that lay within the compass of his skull.

A Mind That Found Itself is a mental health biography by Clifford Whittingham Beers. In 1900, after suffering a mental breakdown, Clifford Whittingham Beers was confined to a mental asylum for three years. After his recovery he wrote this biography, which aroused a storm of protest and public concern about care of people with mental illness. In the eyes of many the modern mental health movement can be traced to this publication.

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This book is an autobiographical account of the author's hospitalization and the abuses he suffered. In 1900 he was first confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He would later be confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During these periods he experienced and witnessed serious maltreatment at the hands of the staff. "A Mind That Found Itself" was widely and favorably reviewed, became a bestseller, and is still in print.

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